QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. Upon what does the vitalization of a school mainly depend? Upon what
else does it depend in part?
2. What suggestion is made in this chapter in regard to the planning of
school buildings?
3. Why should care be taken in choosing the decorations of a school?
4. Why is it unwise for teacher or pupils to boast of the achievements
of the school?
5. Why has the question of school lunches gained so much prominence
recently?
6. How should the industrial work in a school be linked with that in the
community?
7. Why are there fewer students in the higher than in the lower grades
of most schools? Make a careful analysis of the situation in this
respect in your school.
8. Why is it a calamity to a community for a boy to fail to graduate
from the high school?
9. What may be done to prevent a child going outside the school to find
something congenial?
10. What should be a student's motive in choosing a course?
11. How do you make your school a center for community life? How can you
make it more of a center than it is?
12. How is the spirit of jealousy among teachers injurious to our school
system? What usually makes one teacher disparage the work of another?
13. What is essential in vitalizing a school?
INDEX
Absorbing standards, 160.
Acquisitiveness, 52.
Advantages of socialized recitation, 178.
Agriculture; a typical study, 192;
its rapid development, 193;
relation to geology, 194;
the source of life, 202.
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